Statistics Are To Baseball What

Statistics Are To Baseball What A Flaky Crust Is To Mom's Apple Pie.

Journalism Is A Kind Of Profession, Or Craft, Or Racket, For People Who Never Wanted To Grow Up And Go Out Into The Real World.

This Is Why Being A Helicopter Pilot Is So Different From Being An Airplane Pilot, And Why In Generality, Airplane Pilots Are Open, Clear-eyed, Buoyant Extroverts, And Helicopter Pilots Are Brooding Introspective Anticipators Of Trouble. They Know If Something Bad Has Not Happened It Is About To.

We're All Controlled Neurotics.

If You're A Good Journalist, What You Do Is Live A Lot Of Things Vicariously, And Report Them For Other People Who Want To Live Vicariously.